[SOLVED] Can't setup UEFI boot

Hi, I'm in the process of installing a newly bought laptop (Sony Vaio SVS1311P9EB). I'm able to boot from the install media and to install the system but when it comes to setting up the boot I run into some issues.

The HDD is formated with GPT with a EFI partition on /dev/sda3 (there is actually on on sda1 as well, but I think that one is for system recovery. It does lack the boot flag) and the arch system root on /dev/sda6, the partitions in between is used by Windows 7 (pre installed from factory). Works perfectly by the way...

The BIOS is set to use UEFI, "Boot mode" = UEFI. However even though i run 'modprobe efivars' the kernel can't detect any EFI variables, in fact the directory /sys/firmware/efi doesn't even exist.This causes problems when I run (from the newbie install guide);

Re: [SOLVED] Can't setup UEFI boot

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't setup UEFI boot

The module loads fine, but that directory does not get created. If I'm reading the wiki correctly that means that UEFI isn't being used, however that doesn't make any sense since the BIOS is setup to use UEFI